Plato Quotes, Art Quotes, Mean Quotes

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

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You cannot conceive the many without the one.

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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

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When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

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That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.

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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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